2110-6-8-11

[Isaac Foot]

[embossed letterhead:] House of Commons

2.9.34

Pencrebar Callington Cornwall

My Dear Buchan,

I hope this note will reach you on September the Third.

The book is all that I wished for, and if I could have completed such a book I should have considered my life well spent.

I have just finished an article on Cromwell and your book for the Methodist Times.

'John o' London' also invited me to review your book and Belloc's

This I have done, but I have expressed my mind so freely on Belloc's Cromwell (!) that the Editor might shy at publishing all I have had to say.

Belloc seems to think that every detractor of Cromwell should be heard as a credible witness, but that Oliver himself should be assumed to be lying until he has been proved truthful. He suggests I notice that Cromwell might be lying even when he recalls his conversation with Hampden on 'decayed tapsters' &c. Why does Belloc publish his book just now? He knew yours was just appearing. Beyond the fact of synchronous publication there is no comparison.

Thank God! I rejoice unfeignedly in your achievement.

Yours sincerely

Isaac Foot